Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of 'Waverley'.

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Página 85 This person was natural son to a gentleman of good family, owing to which
circumstance, and to his being of a jolly convivial, disposition, and singing a good
song, he was admitted to the occasional society of the gentlemen of the country,
and ...

Página 105 Above all, here, and here only, were observed the vestiges of a child's foot ; and,
as it could be seen no where else, and the hard horse-track which traversed the
wood of Warroch was contiguous to the spot, it was natural to think thai the boy ...

Página 164 ... having the highest opinion of his guest's good sense and penetration, he
determined to take an opportunity, when they should happen to be alone, to
communicate the matter to her as a simple piece of intelligence. He did so in as natural a ...

Página 169 Wise men say, that we resign to 'civil society onr natural rights of self-defence,
only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. Where the price
cannot be paid, the resignation takes no place. For instance, no one supposes,
that I ...

Página 202 Miss Bertram shed some natural tears over this cold-hearted epistle, for in her
mother s time, this good lady had been a guest at Ellangowan for nearly three
years, and it was only upon succeeding to a property of about 400/. a-year that
she ...

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Página 150 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?

Página 31 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...

Página 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

Página 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...

Página 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.

Página 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...

Página 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.